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Sporocarps closely gregarious, globose or ovate, stalked or sometimes sessile, 0.5-1 mm diam., iridescent, grey, white when empty. Peridium thin, translucent, smooth or slightly rugulose, weakly calcareous, the lime often forming a surface reticulum. Stalk, when present, usually rather short but occasionally exceeding 50% of the total height, cylindric, black or dark brown. Hypothallus thin, confluent, colourless and often scarcely apparent. Capillitium a white, persistent network of slender tubules, with large meshes. Spores in compact clusters of 6-20 or more, pyriform, strongly warted on the exposed surface, either smooth or less prominently warted elsewhere, 10-13 µm diam. Plasmodium orange.
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The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.
Sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation.
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